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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 22, 2014 3:00 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 22, 2014 3:00 PM UTC If you’d like to get in the Earth Day spirit, head over to the[ Google homepag](http://www.google.com/)e for an animated celebration of the planet’s coolest creatures. Some of the animals featured in today’s Doodle include the puffer fish, the veiled chameleon, the moon jellyfish and the Japanese macaque. You can search Google to read up on each animal, or share your favorite on Twitter, Facebook and Google+. Here are some of the lovely creatures:  Google.com  Google.com  Google.com To continue celebrating Earth’s most majestic creatures, check out the [winners of the ](http://time.com/71753/meet-the-winners-of-the-most-beautiful-bulldog-contest/)[Beautiful Bulldog Contest](http://time.com/71753/meet-the-winners-of-the-most-beautiful-bulldog-contest/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/71832/earth-day-google-doodle/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/71832/earth-day-google-doodle/"},"headline":"Celebrate Earth Day With Today's Animated Google Doodle","datePublished":"2014-04-22T15:00:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:42.886Z","description":"It features some of the planet's most beautifully bizarre creatures","url":"https://time.com/71832/earth-day-google-doodle/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","Google","Holidays","Google Doodle","Earth Day","green"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/71832/earth-day-google-doodle/","name":"Celebrate Earth Day With Today's Animated Google Doodle"}}]}] ```